Georgia mayor arrested in FBI child sex Internet sting

(CNN) -- The mayor of Taylorsville, Georgia, was arrested by the FBI after attempting to meet with a minor to have sex, authorities said
FridayCary Rhodes, 57, who was investigated by undercover officers on the Internet, is facing state charges of attempted aggravated child molestation
and violating the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act, said Brian D. Lamkin, special agent in charge of the Atlanta FBI office.
Rhodes, also a self-employed engineer, was arrested Thursday by FBI agents and officers of the FBI's Northwest Georgia Safe Child Task Force,
authorities said..

Have Mercy! Apparently, Georgia has had some unfortunate choices in politicians! Let's see....we have public nudity, fraud, bank robbery,drunk
driving, and last but not least, cockfighting. The one Mayor involved in the bank robbery was driving the freakin getaway car!!!

The article does say "attempting to meet." I'd agree that simply talking about it, especially online where anybody can say theyre anybody, is
ridiculous to make a crime out of to the point of charging people for dreams and thoughts but if they got the guy at some place where he was intent on
meeting the person he thought was a minor then that's a different story.

Cary Rhodes, 57, who was investigated by undercover officers on the Internet, is facing state charges of attempted aggravated child molestation and
violating the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act, said Brian D. Lamkin, special agent in charge of the Atlanta FBI office.

Your Right StealthyKat...Georgia has it's share of perverts. I know white county maybe a dry county for alcohol but it's full of child molesters.

Here's a link that you can use to search by county or city for Sex Offenders in GA.
Source
The link will bring up Taylorsville but you can still select the search tab and select another county or city. Like I said we have our share and the
ones not registered are the ones to worry about since they won't be showing up in this search. Now that I have a grandbaby in the house I'll be on the
lookout. Thanks for posting this thread.

It just never ends! Here is a Mayor's son arrested for animal cruelty for raping dogs!

Since this article was written, they revealed that the
"evidence" they took from the house were videos he had taken of himself raping his 2
dogs....www.myfoxatlanta.com... I'm not picking on Georgia, but that is crazy
stuff.

I think that what the mayor did is sick, but I agree with you. In a lot of these cases, we cannot say for sure whether it still would have happened at
some point. I think that, in general, we may in fact be creating these crimes by simply giving them the opportunity to flower. If you put an
undercover agent on a street, posing as a prostitute, and wait for guys to approach her before arresting them, one must ask: Are we certain the person
who approached the prostitute would have done it anyway eventually without our being involved? I don't think we can be certain, and thus, that's why
I'm opposed to these kind of criminal justice practices.

Seriously, if we had never put the prostitute on that street on that particular day, the guy/girl who approached her for sex may never have approached
a prostitute for the rest of their life. Maybe it was just that particular day when the guy/girl slipped. We just CANNOT say for sure.

No.....he was being watched as he explicitly told the "child" what he wanted to do, set up a meeting place, and showed up with "accessories" he
planned on using. That shows intent. It will all come out in court. Of course there is always the possiblity that he would back out of it.....but in
reality, that isn't likely to be the case....he went through several steps in the process where he could have bailed out...but didn't.

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